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March 20, 2015 Trae Dorn chifi, Con Scene, Conventions

CHI FI Convention Screwing Up PR and Communications… Again

So right now as I write this, CHI FI, a science fiction convention in Chicago, is running their inaugural event.

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March 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Fantasticon, fantasticon milwaukee

Milwaukee’s Fantasticon is Out of Money, Won’t Run a Second Event

The Milwaukee based Fantasticon held their first event this last October, and sadly it seems like it will be their

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March 9, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Marvel, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC

Marvel May Skip San Diego Comic Con This Year

According to Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, Marvel may be skipping San Diego Comic Con this year. During

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February 5, 2015 Trae Dorn Awesome Con, Awesome Con Indianapolis, Con Scene, Conventions, Imaginarium LLC, Indiana Comic Con, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Comic Con, IndyPopCon, Wizard World, Wizard World Indianapolis

Indiana’s Doppelganger Conventions

I’m a regular reader of Tony Troxell’s blog Geeking in Indiana, as — well– I’m a geek in Indiana. Earlier

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February 1, 2015 Trae Dorn Comic Con Purdue, Con Scene, Conventions, Purdue Comic Con

Comic Con Purdue: A Potential Unrealized

The first Comic Con Purdue (or Purdue Comic Con depending on where you look) was held this Saturday at (you

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January 10, 2015 Trae Dorn Anime Milwaukee, Con Scene, Conventions, ECPS, Nezumi Con

Nezumi Con Now Officially Organized by Anime Milwaukee’s Parent Organization

According to announcements made earlier this week, Nezumi Con (one of our picks for best conventions of 2014) will now

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December 10, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, DashCon, EmotiCon

DashCon Successor Event “EmotiCon” Cancelled

A little while back we mentioned that legendary disaster convention DashCon had rebranded itself as EmotiCon. Sadly, we must now

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December 7, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Midwest FurFest, Terrorism

Midwest FurFest Evacuated After Intentional Release of Chlorine Gas

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Nineteen people were taken to the hospital with naseua and other symptoms, and the

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November 5, 2014 Trae Dorn Awesome Con, Awesome Con Milwaukee, Con Scene, Conventions

Awesome Con Milwaukee Officially Canceled

So Awesome Con‘s attempts to make inroads into the Midwest haven’t exactly been smooth. Their Indianapolis event in October drew

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Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999. Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show, and in doing so they get to talk about psychedelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in) and the dispatch of a weaselly middle manager in ‘Earthbound,’ and then with ‘The Troubled Spirit’ Halloween comes a little early and it’s probably more spooky than whatever we’ll end up doing for our Halloween episode…

EPISODES DISCUSSED:
00:11:32 Black Sun
00:34:20 Earthbound
00:58:40 The Troubled Spirit

Talking Points Include: More Space 1999, Death Stranding, a trip to Scotland, the science is impossible, Moon Base Alpha’s limited resources, British Pessimism vs. American Gung-Ho, Gene Roddenberry would never, Hard SF has a tendency to go full magic weirdness, Bohemian Rhapsody deserves it’s rep, Christopher Lee is phoning it in, Simmons is the David Brent in Space, cowardly heroes, our brave explorers enjoying shouting MMMMUUUUUUUUTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNT like in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ Charlie repeats a Johnny Byrne joke from the last episode, awesome sitar music this is the most Halloween episode we’ve done for the show, a wicked burn from Charlie’s old teacher Mr. Jafferji, is Moonbase Alpha a liminal space? M. Night Shyamalan films and surprisingly… some Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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